GREAT HORNED OWLS 
able, from the ledge above one was practically halfway up, 
and thence grew more slender trees, on some of which one 
could climb to within fifteen feet of the nest. There one 
might screw up a camera, and “pull the string” on the owl 
from a distance. She might also be photographed from the 
ground as she stood up in the nest, or looked over the edge. 
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course, impossible, and I quietly withdrew to devise a future 
plan of attack. 
The situation of the nest was quite favorable. Though the 
massive tree, with its rough, scaly bark, was almost unclimb- 
